Definition of Disruptive

1. Adjective. Characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination. "A turbulent and unruly childhood"

Exact synonyms: Riotous, Troubled, Tumultuous, Turbulent
Similar to: Unquiet
Derivative terms: Disrupt, Riot, Tumult, Tumultuousness, Turbulence

Definition of Disruptive

1. a. Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery.

Definition of Disruptive

1. Adjective. Causing disrupt or unrest. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disruptive

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Disruptive

1. Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disruptive

disrotary
disrotatory
disrulily
disruly
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disrupted
disrupter
disrupters
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disrupting explosive
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disruptive instability
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diss
diss song
diss songs
diss track
diss tracks
dissarray

Literary usage of Disruptive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1856)
""On the Disintegration of Urinary Calculi by the Lateral Disruptive Force ... to apply the disruptive force of electricity without any portion of the body ..."

2. Philosophy of the Mechanics of Nature, and the Source and Modes of Action of by Zachariah Allen (1852)
"The air must therefore oppose a very considerable resistance to a disruptive discharge of electricity. A cannon ball is arrested thereby in a few seconds of ..."

3. Réflexions sur l'espèce en histoire naturelle, 1842 by Hans Falkenhagen, Ronald Percy Bell, Norman Holt Hartshorne, Alan Stuart, Eric John Holmyard, Alexander Moritzi, Thomas Hodgkin (1899)
"Triumph In this brief and imperfect sketch of the internal disruptive organisation of Charles's Empire I have necessarily after the hinted at some of the ..."

4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1877)
"(280) Disruptive Discharge—Electric Light.—When the cur rent is greater than the ... From a powerful voltaic battery this disruptive discharge may be ..."

5. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1893)
"When an insulating medium is exposed to a great electrostatic stress, quite independent, of its specific electric resistance at a certain KM p., disruptive ..."

6. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1899)
"Triumph In this brief and imperfect sketch of the internal disruptive ... We all know that, as a matter of fact, the disruptive agencies that were at work ..."

7. Wireless Telegraphy: Its History, Theory and Practice by Archie Frederick Collins (1905)
"Disruptive DISCHARGE. HISTORICAL. The phenomenon of an electric spark springing across an air- gap, or a disruptive discharge, was probably the first ..."

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